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CVE-2017-4992

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-4992 is a critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting various versions of Cloud Foundry cf-release, UAA, and UAA BOSH release. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to perform arbitrary password resets through user invitations. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 260CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cloudfoundry:cf-release:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 27CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cloudfoundry:cloud_foundry_uaa_bosh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cloudfoundry:cloud_foundry_uaa_bosh:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cloudfoundry:cloud_foundry_uaa_bosh:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cloudfoundry:cloud_foundry_uaa_bosh:13.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
64.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0117 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-serverFixed in: 2.7.4.17
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-serverFixed in: 3.6.11
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-serverFixed in: 3.9.13
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.cloudfoundry.identity:cloudfoundry-identity-serverFixed in: 4.2.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-jcmh-x32v-7mgfcritical

Cloud Foundry UAA privilege escalation with user invitations

May 13, 2022

References

cloudfoundry.org / cve-2017-4992
Vendor Advisory